Apparatus for packing cops for dyeing, bleaching, and the like



Feb. 17. 1925.

Filed Jan. 23 1924' 8574/? 0/ Mme/m R x Patented Feb. 17, 1925.

UNITEDTSTATES PATENT OFFICE.

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Be it known that I, ALFRED Rnso -I, a citizen of the Swiss Republic, andgresident of Zurich, Switzerland, am the administra- 5 tor of the estate of Winirnn ir Rnfsoi-r, late a resident of Steinen, Baden, Germany, and late a citizen of the Swiss Republic, deceased, who 11 s invented new and useful Improvements in Ap'paratusdor Packing Cops for Dye ng, Bleachingfand the like,

of which the following is a full, clear, and

exact specification. 1

In dyeing cops on theirpaper tubes without central spindle it is well known to pack and press them in horizontal layers in a pack container and to drive thereupon the treating liquid through the cops in their longitudinal direction. This packing, however, has the drawback that in the alternate rows with a given number of cops there are formed on both sides dead spaces of a width corresponding to half a diameter of a cop, which cause an irregular treatment of the pack throughout, as the liqu d, instead of passing through the cops at said zones, would be allowed to avoid same.

The present invention relates to improvements in apparatus for packing cops to be impregnated with a dyeing. bleaching or other liquid. wherein the pack container is combined with s de filling bars arranged along the sides of the container and so shaped in cross section as to closely contact with the sides of the cop lavers in order to close up any dead space that mav result from a staggered arrangement of the cops in the layers. Such filling bars not only eliminate any free space along the lavers, but also insure the correct position of the cops.

Preferably the pack container is provided on its front ends w th lateral grooves extending down to its bottom and arranged to receive the ends of said filling bars so as to guide and hold them in their position. the said filling bars being thus locked against any transverse displacement.

The invention is illustrated in the accompanving drawings.

50 Fig. 1 is avertical transverse section through a container with a pack of cops before its compression;

Fig. 2 is a plan view thereof and shows the-staggered row arrangement of the cops in the different layers; V

Fig. *3 is a front view of the container (one front end beingremoved) to show the packof cops when'being compressed;

Fig. 4: shows in plan view a wider container with intermediate filling bars between separate sections of the cop layers;

, )Fig. 5 showsthetwo standard formsof side, filling jbars, while Fig. 6 represents the two standard forms of said intermediate filling bars.

The packing of the container a is effected in such a way that at first two filling bars 5 of the form shown at I in Fig. 5 are laid on the right and left hand side upon the bottom of the container; then the cops 0 are placed in horizontal position side by side and by three rows lying behind one another between the said bottom bars 6, whereby the cops of the different rows are in a staggered relation, see Fig. 2, the middle row comprising for example six adja cent cops and the two end rows having only five cops placed side by side. Thus, one layer of cops, the lowest one, is built up in the container a. For the next upper layer, use is made of two filling bars 6 of the shape represented at IT. in Fig. 5 along the right and left hand side of the container a, these filling bars 6 having their th cker portion in the middle part, whilst the filling bars I) of the said first or lowest laver have their thicker part at both ends. The cops are arranged between said filling bars 6 in an analogous manner as in the lowest layer so that the middle row may comprise five cops side by side, whilst the end rows comprise each six cops side by side. For

the next upper or third layer of cops, filling bars I; of the shape shown at I in Fig. 5 are again emplo ed and for the fourth layer of cops two filling bars 6 of the shape shown at II in Fig. 5 are again used. and so on, the pack in the container being built up in the successive layers of cops alternately with the two forms of filling bars shown in Fig. 5, until the container is sufliciently charged.

All the filling bars that may be used are provided at their ends with studs d arranged to slidably engage into vertical grooves e provided on the inner side of the front walls of the container a, the filling bars being thus locked against any transverse movement, while being allowed to slide in the grooves e. At the edge where they come into contact with the cops, they present a shape f, g, h, i, la, Z, m exactly adapted to the outline of the cop layers along their rows. This particular shape of the filling bars ensures the position of the cops in their longitudinal direction during the treatment. When the container a is of relatively great width, it is advantageous to separate each layer of cops into two or more sections (Fig. 4) and to insert between them filling bars 6 b of the kind represented at I and II in Fig. 6, the bars 6 alternating in the successive layers as shown in Fig. 4 by full and dotted lines.

After the pack in the container a being completed, the whole is compressed transversely to the longitudinal axis of the cops until the superimposed filling bars enter in contact with one another (Fig. 3), so that all passages between the cops as well as the openings of the cop tubes are tightly closed. This tight packing insures a uniform impregnation throughout of the cops in all the layers of the container.

What I claim is:

In an apparatus for packing cops to be impregnated with a dyeing, bleaching or other liquid, the combination of a pack container with side filling bars arranged along the sides of the container and so shaped in cross section as to closely contact with the sides of the cop layers, in order to close up dead spaces along the same, said container being provided on the inner side of its front walls with guide means to receive end parts of said filling bars for lockmg same.

In witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name this 19th day of December 1923, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

DR. ALFRED RESCI-I, Administrator of the estate of Wilhelm Resch, deceased.

Witnesses:

AMAND BRAUN, LUCIEN J. PICARD. 

